Recording of History
The football team that Mr. Smith (unfortunately) roots for.
What are The New York Jets?
The Founding Fathers decided to separate these two entities.
What are Church and State?
Unbiased primary source that told us about all of the atrocities that the Spanish did to the Native Americans.
Who is Bartolome De Las Casas?
Escaped slaves found it too unsafe to remain anywhere in the U.S. Thus fleeing to ________
What is Canada or Spanish Florida?
Mr. Smith said that slavery can be closely associated with _________
What is the government?
This person depicted the more famous version of The Boston Massacre, i.e. the one where the British massacred innocent American civilians.
Who is Paul Revere?
This type of Government was the government of the Puritans.
What is a Theocracy?
The cross-continental trade of goods that was opened up after the Spanish landed in the Americas.
What is the Columbian exchange?
This Biblical story was used to justify slavery. A brother is cursed with a mark in this story.
What is the story of Cain and Abel?
These cultural forms of entertainment were appalling to white cultures.
What is black dancing and music?
This person told the less famous, yet more accurate version of the Boston Massacre. That is, the one where a rabid mob attacked the British soldiers, they defended themselves, and the leader told them to stop firing.
Who is Captain Thomas Preston?
The way that the Salem Witch Trials impacted the American Legal system. Guilt needs to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. During the Witch Trials it was the opposite way.
What is innocent until proven guilty?
Many Spaniards were appalled by Native American cultural practices, particularly their _________
What are polytheistic religious beliefs?
This thing prevented slavery from existing in the north in the early 1800s.
What is whites wanting to preserve their jobs?
While slavery sucked, slaves did have better medical treatment, food, shelter, and clothing than these people _________
Who are dirt poor free white northerners?
Mr. Smith's father loves Ronald Reagan, yet hates Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter.
What is bias?
Conviction of a witch led to their land being sold for public auction. Also a good way to get revenge on them.
What is the economic cause of the Salem Witch Trials?
Although the Vikings and people like Leif Erikson came to the Americas, they didn't __________
What is crossing over the massive Atlantic Ocean without staying near the coastline?
It wasn't until the advent of cities/governments where we began to slavery exist on a large scale. These folks didn't really have slavery.
Who are hunters and gatherers?
This man saw slaves being obedient, acting stupid, and showing no free will determined that_______
What is Aristotle thinking that people were naturally born to be slaves and that's why they were dumb and had no free will.
Had The British won the Revolutionary War, the history books would've talked hella smack about the so-called Founding Fathers.
What is history being written by the victors?
Work is inherently good & Godly. Pleasure/fun are evil and sinful.
What is the Puritan work ethic?
The name of Columbus' crewman that Columbus gave a Native woman so that he could rape her.
Who is Michel de Cuneo?
The SPECIFIC part of the Constitution that says escaped slaves must be returned. (Full answer is a requirement).
What is the Fugitve Slave clause (Article IV, Section 2, clause 3)?
Out of the first 12 U.S. Presidents, only these two never owned slaves.
Who are John Adams and John Quincy Adams?